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Eagles to play Easter Friday night under lights at Optus.PERFECT !!!!!Dockers to play a lot of Sunday arvo games at Optus next year apparently.PERFECT !!!!! It will allow me an opportunity to do some weeding. :D

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Looks like the West Australian teams once again looked upon as trivial in this competition. Why would the Afl not sent Collingwood here in round one for the Eagles to unravel their premiership flag. Instead we have to travel to Brisbane . Then to top it off have to play Collingwood 2 weeks later in Melbourne , just goes to show how much respect the Afl afford us

Looks like the West Australian teams once again looked upon as trivial in this competition. Why would the Afl not sent Collingwood here in round one for the Eagles to unravel their premiership flag. Instead we have to travel to Brisbane . Then to top it off have to play Collingwood 2 weeks later in Melbourne , just goes to show how much respect the Afl afford us

Looks like the West Australian teams once again looked upon as trivial in this competition. Why would the Afl not sent Collingwood here in round one for the Eagles to unravel their premiership flag. Instead we have to travel to Brisbane . Then to top it off have to play Collingwood 2 weeks later in Melbourne , just goes to show how much respect the Afl afford us

Ummm, coz 80,000 plus will be at the G to watch Pies v Cats.

Shoulda built a bigger park.

What an embarrassment to the AFL the Collingwood team is. they are given an opportunity to replay the Grand Final on the same ground early next year and already the suggestion is that the MCG will only be about 80% full...where as if this game was played at Optus there will be a guaranteed 100% stadium full

I suppose all the out of Victoria clubs can do is to just keep propping up the Vic teams. Within the next 20-30 years lets hope we get to the point where they can astand on their own 2 feet.

West CoastPlay 10 games interstate Double The Pies what the Pies have to do It stinks

I hate it to Brady, always have. Team that wins the grand final gets rewarded with 10 games out of the state and the team that loses is penalized with 4 trips out of the state!!... Is that REALLY fair???

Then the team that wins the grand final is rewarded with playing 3 games on the ground of the grand final, while the team that loses is penalized with only 16 games on the ground of the Grand Final

There's only eight non-Victorian teams, so unless you want them to play all eight of them away every season, plus also play at least two of the three Victorian teams that currently play games interstate, Hawthorn (at York Park), North Melbourne (at Bellerive Oval) and/or Melbourne (at Marrara Oval and Traeger Park), they or any of the other 6 Victorian teams (not including HAW, NM or MEL), will never play ten games interstate a year, every year, like WCE, FRE, ADE, BL, GC, GWS, PA or SYD do.

I haven't counted how many interstate games the other six Victorian teams play (not including Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Melbourne), but it's probably not that much different to the number Collingwood would play.

A quick glance shows Richmond playing 5 games interstate, just like Collingwood do in 2019.

Out of the 198 "home and away" games scheduled in 2019, 99 will be played in Victoria, 98 will be played interstate (11 home games each for the 8 non-Victorian teams, 4 for Hawthorn, 4 for North Melbourne and 2 for Melbourne) and 1 in China (a St Kilda home game, due to PA contractually having to play 11 home games at Adelaide Oval).

I haven't counted how many interstate games the other six Victorian teams play (not including Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Melbourne), but it's probably not that much different to the number Collingwood would play.

So, unfortunately, it is just a fact of reality that by living in Perth, the most geographically remote city on the planet, we have to travel more than any other club every season. That fact is never going to change.

Throw in the fact that there are more Victorian clubs (10) than non-Victorian clubs (8), just on those numbers alone, the non-Victorian clubs will always have to play more games interstate than Victorian clubs and the Victorian clubs that pull-in the biggest crowds will always get more opportunities to play at the biggest venue (i.e. MCG). You have to remember, there's only four Victorian venues now in use by the AFL; MCG, Docklands, Kardinia Park (Geelong) and Eureka Stadium (Ballarat) and generally Docklands isn't big enough for clubs with big supporter bases like Collingwood and Richmond.

About the only way you could even try to equalise the number of times every club travelled interstate, was if the Victorian teams sold off one "home" game each season to the interstate teams and/or when two Victorian teams play each other, say once per club per season, they did so at an interstate "neutral" venue. That way, in theory at least, every AFL club would then travel interstate a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 9 times during the "home and away" season.

Obviously though, that's never going to happen, for a variety of reasons, both financially and viability, and personally I don't think that should happen either.

There's only eight non-Victorian teams, so unless you want them to play all eight of them away every season, plus also play at least two of the three Victorian teams that currently play games interstate, Hawthorn (at York Park), North Melbourne (at Bellerive Oval) and/or Melbourne (at Marrara Oval and Traeger Park), they will never play ten games interstate a year.

The suggestion I made in a later post (playing devil's advocate), which I stated that I didn't personally support, was about the only way you could try to even up the interstate travel a little bit.

About the only way you could even try to equalise the number of times every club travelled interstate, was if the Victorian teams sold off one "home" game each season to the interstate teams and/or when two Victorian teams play each other, say once per club per season, they did so at an interstate "neutral" venue. That way, in theory at least, every AFL club would then travel interstate a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 9 times during the "home and away" season.

Obviously though, that's never going to happen, for a variety of reasons, both financially and viability, and personally I don't think that should happen either.

In my opinion, the travel thing is a "non-issue", if your team is good enough, they'll find a way to win.

Is a non issue yes, because all the "disadvantage" of playing away interstate is offset by the "advantage" of playing equal number of home interstate games - ie those visiting teams under equal duress as WC (et al) are playing away.

The only inequity is the actual distance covered, but unless WC relocate to Alice Springs that is never going to be rectified, and also who plays who for the 5 double up games.............which everyone makes a big fuss about, but end of the day it's only 5 games !

Could you imagine how many premierships the Eagles would have if we had the amount of travel Collingwood has every year ???OMG we would have to build another Optus Stadium just to house the cups !!! :)>-